This seems like another win for Apple in the battle with PC makers. I could not quite believe this: the latest USB sound card from Sound Blaster comes with a support for Mac (as well as PC). As for a sound card it is rather a basic one with e.g. no real surround sound. But it has a built-in wireless streamer that can blast music from itunes to speakers or a hifi in another room, according to the
Sound Blaster Wireless for iTunes product page anyway.



Source: http://www.epizenter.net/comment.php?comment.news.480

The older one, SoundBlaster Live! 24bit External has Mac Support, as most USB cards.

You gotta be kiddin' me! USB sound? I have to plug yet another gizmo in because Apple doesn't have a real 3rd party sound driver? Why is this news? Mac sound is totally average, if not lame.

My biggest complaint against Apple (Supposedly a Music Company) is you can't buy a real sound card. You can't even get simple optical/digtal Dolby 5.1 sound. What is up with that?! I have a Razer sound card on my PC (there's probably a half dozen other good ones) that has all the hardware drivers for Dolby, THX, etc. It sounds awesome! No comparison to Mobo 5.1 sound Mac or PC. I never totally switched to my hackintosh because of crappy sound. fyi, I have a MacBook Pro, but I didn't buy for music/sound.

Why can't you buy a real PCI or PCI-x sound card with Mac Drivers?

I suspect there isn't a big market for the pci (e) sound card for mac since mainstream macs can only have add-ons through UBS or Firewire. Pro users using MacPros would usually have the money to get high end sound interfaces that support mac. So... it sucks for us hackintosh users...

Yeah, I really hate that, we hackintosh users are away from PCIe TV tunner cards and good sound cards, no 5.1 Dolby Digital Live, no tv, etc.

yes, i do too....